Static files urls pointing to Django instead of to nginx

Question

I'm trying to serve static files with nginx for my Django app.

I'm following this guide in which they propose the following nginx config file:

server {
    server_name yourdomainorip.com;

    access_log off;

    location /static/ {
        alias /opt/myenv/static/;
    }

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8001;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $server_name;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        add_header P3P 'CP="ALL DSP COR PSAa PSDa OUR NOR ONL UNI COM NAV"';
    }
}

And in my settings.py I have the following declarations:

STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'static/')
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_FINDERS = (
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
)

I'm able to see the static files at urls of the form:

http://x.x.x.x/static/admin/img/icon_searchbox.png

However, when trying to reference static files in my templates using the {% static %} tag, I get urls of the form:

http://x.x.x.x:8001/static/admin/img/icon_searchbox.png

which doesn't point to the files and instead are procesed by Django.

Any ideas of how can I solve this?

Don · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-21 08:31:13Z

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Try this:

STATIC_URL = '/static/'

It was missing the first "/"

answered Oct 21, 2013 at 8:31

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Miguel López Over a year ago

Sorry, it was a typo. The first "/" is present in my settings file.

Hypuk · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-23 04:56:40Z

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Try this config for nginx:

location / {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8001;
        proxy_set_header Host $host:$server_port;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
}

answered Oct 23, 2013 at 4:56

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